Support for Mobility Radeon HD 56xx?

[Andreas Demmer]

On Sunday 11 July 2010 20:05:33 Alex Deucher wrote:
> It already supports evergreen chips.  Make sure you are using 2.6.34
> with kms enabled and xf86-video-ati
>  6.13.0 or newer.

Hm, my openSUSE 11.3 RC2 comes with kernel 2.6.34 and KMS support. The radeon 
driver is in package xorg-x11-driver-video which is version 7.5, according to 
changelog, the contained ati driver is xf86-video-ati 6.13.0 (final)..

What should I do to force the radeon driver? I blacklisted "intel" but kernel 
mode support renders my screen black. Booting with "nomodeset" shows boot 
messages but fails when Xorg ist started.

I guess I need to disable the integrated Intel Arrandale. But since my 
notebook has no BIOS switch for this, I need to do it manually with 
vga_switchheroo of kernel 2.6.34.

Problem is: KMS keeps me from using the console, therefore I cannot turn the 
Intel card off.

Any suggesttions? :-(

Greets,
Andreas